TOWED TO GRIMSBY At 3.41 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties in the moderate seas off the coastguard station.

At 4.34 he reported that the boat was still in difficulties, drifting in the fresh northerly breeze towards the open sea. It was two hours before high water when, at 4.40, the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched to investigate. At 5.15 she found the cabin cruiser Aquilla proceeding very slowly because of engine trouble, and the life-boat towed her to Grimsby. On the return journey the coastguard at Spurn radioed the life-boat to report that what appeared to be smoke signals had been seen off the old Easington boathouse. After a fruitless search together with a helicopter, the life-boat returned to her station at 9.25 and anchored to await the tide before rehousing..